Lawrence Lo wrote:
Academic journals, thousands of them. If free access to all knowledge is our goal, freeing the journals is a major step towards there. I don't know what Open access or Wikiversity might impact the process of knowledge generation in the future, but I know the academy was/is the most important part in the process. Though I wonder if a million dollars is enough :P
Most of this is probably more relevant to Wikisource than Wikiversity. Wikiversity needs to develop effective ways to use the material rather than just accumulate the stuff.
Another thing I have in mind, albeit maybe off-topic, is the digitization public domain works. Not only text (which is what Project Gutenberg is doing), but books, documents, photos, paintings, pictures, recordings etc. Forget about copyrighted stuff, there are a lot of goodies without copyright but I can't access them simply because I am not sitting next to them.
The mass of available out-of-copyright material is certainly worth doing, but that is a manpower rather than a copyright problem. I would add archival ephemera to this.
Ec